Weather Watch
1st-3rd grades
Date: Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Time: 9 - 11 a.m.
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery | Discovery Hall
Grades: 1st - 3rd
Cost: $10
Storm clouds gather and thunder crashes. Wild weather is on its way! Whether the weather is hot, sunny, or cloudy, weather affects our daily lives. Explore the sun-water-weather connection and design and build a wind resistant structure and test it at the Wind Wall in Discovery Hall.
Over the Rainbow
1st-3rd grades
Date: Wednesday, July 5, 2023
Time: 9 a.m. - Noon
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery
Grades: 1st - 3rd
Cost: $15
Explore the colors of the rainbow and learn what makes a color! Mix, blend, and create a colorful piece of artwork and learn how a rainbow is formed.
Bubble Festival
1st-3rd grades
Date: Thursday July 6, 2023
Time: 1 - 3 p.m.
Location: Longway Planetarium
Grades: 1st - 3rd
Cost: $10
Explore the colors of the rainbow and learn what makes a color! Mix, blend, and create a colorful piece of artwork and learn how a rainbow is formed.
Drop, Flip, and Fly
1st-3rd grades
Date: Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Time: 9 a.m. - Noon
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery | Discovery Hall
Grades: 1st - 3rd
Cost: $15
Explore motion while building a variety of gadgets, fliers, and flippers. Fly your kite at the Wind Wall in Discovery Hall, build something that stays aloft in a wind tube, and play with cardboard flippers.
Chemistry Matters
1st-3rd grades
Date: Monday, July 17, 2023
Time: 1 - 4 p.m.
Location: Longway Planetarium
Grades: 1st - 3rd
Cost: $15
Matter makes up the world around us. Explore matter while learning how to describe properties and make careful observations while we change matter in different ways. Figure out how to make ice melt faster, mix up some mixtures that you can separate out again, and try a chemistry experiment that pops.
Light and Sound
1st-3rd grades
Date: Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Time: 1 - 4 p.m.
Location: Longway Planetarium
Grades: 1st - 3rd
Cost: $15
Explore energy while visiting interactives in Discovery Hall. Make your own light surprise box and investigate how mirrors can change the path of light. Make a variety of noise makers while observing the connection between materials and vibrations.
How Does Your Garden Grow?
1st-3rd grades
Date: Monday, July 24, 2023
Time: 1 - 4 p.m.
Location: Longway Planetarium
Grades: 1st - 3rd
Cost: $15
Spend some time in the Planetarium garden while exploring the life cycle of plants. Dissect a flower to see where the seed starts. Hunt for helpful pollinators, look at some pollen under a microscope, and see how pollen gets moved from plant to plant by helpful animals. Start a few plants to take home and grow.
Car Safari
1st-3rd grades
Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
Time: 1 - 4 p.m.
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery | Durant Gallery
Grades: 1st - 3rd
Cost: $15
Visit the Durant Gallery for a car safari scavenger hunt. We'll use real cars in the gallery and toy cars in the classroom for math, science, and engineering fun. Learn how the shape of a car helps it go faster while engineering an aerodynamic buggy.
Exploring the Sky
1st-3rd grades
Date: Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Time: 9 a.m. - Noon
Location: Longway Planetarium
Grades: 1st - 3rd
Cost: $15
Look up and what do you see? The sun? The moon? Stars? What's up there and why do these objects seem to move across the sky? Take a tour through the Solar System while learning the difference between stars, moons, and planets. Make a beautiful piece of art to take home.
Rock Hounds
1st-3rd grades
Date: Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Time: 1 - 3 p.m.
Location: Longway Planetarium
Grades: 1st - 3rd
Cost: $10
Do you love rocks and fossils? Sort, measure, and clean rocks while preparing your own rock and fossils box. Look and touch real fossils and make a modern fossil to take home.
Maker Camp | 3-Day Camp
1st-3rd grades
Date: July 17 - 19, 2023 | Mon - Weds
Time: 9 a.m. - Noon
Location: Longway Planetarium
Grades: 1st - 3rd
Cost: $70
Open-ended engineering challenges and creative projects with plenty of time to work on self-guided projects.
Float Your Boat: Choose from a variety of materials to build a boat that carries cargo without sinking.
Shadow Puppets: Experiment with colored light and shadows that are made by it. Design shadow puppets to take home.
Ancient Artifacts | 3-Day Camp
1st-3rd grades
Date: July 31 - August 2, 2023 | Mon - Weds
Time: 1 - 4 p.m.
Location: Longway Planetarium
Grades: 1st - 3rd
Cost: $70
Let's dig! Uncover the long-lost pieces of art and architecture from ancient stargazers. Where are the pieces form? What do these symbols mean? Who created them? Put the puzzles together and let them guide you through the mystery! What will you discover?
Around the World | 3-Day Camp
1st-3rd grades
Date: August 7 - 9, 2023 | Mon - Weds
Time: 9 a.m. - Noon
Location: Sloan Museum of Discovery
Grades: 1st - 3rd
Cost: $70
Get ready to travel around the world and explore different cultures through history, landmarks, and music. Create artwork inspired by different counties and traditions.
STEM Discovery Camp | 5-Day Camp | 7/10 - 7/14
1st-3rd grades
Date: July 10 - 14, 2023 | Mon - Fri
Time: 1 - 4 p.m.
Location: Longway Planetarium
Grades: 1st - 3rd
Cost: $95
Box City: Work with your new friends to plan, design, and build a model city. Where will the city’s water come from? Where will the trash go? How will the residents get around town?
Bugs: Butterflies, bees, and worms! Take a look at life in the garden.
Dinosaur Discovery: Play a dinosaur name game, see and touch real fossils, make a fossil model to take home, and learn about dinosaur defenses.
Storybook STEM Engineering Challenges: Build a better chair for Baby Bear, a stronger house for the three little pigs, and a landing pad for Humpty Dumpty.
STEM Discovery Camp | 5-Day Camp | 7/24 - 7/28
1st-3rd grades
Date: July 24 - 28, 2023 | Mon - Fri
Time: 9 a.m. - Noon
Location: Longway Planetarium
Grades: 1st - 3rd
Cost: $95
Box City: Work with your new friends to plan, design, and build a model city. Where will the city’s water come from? Where will the trash go? How will the residents get around town?
Bugs: Butterflies, bees, and worms! Take a look at life in the garden.
Dinosaur Discovery: Play a dinosaur name game, see and touch real fossils, make a fossil model to take home, and learn about dinosaur defenses.
Storybook STEM Engineering Challenges: Build a better chair for Baby Bear, a stronger house for the three little pigs, and a landing pad for Humpty Dumpty.